Neural representation of spectral and temporal features of song in the auditory forebrain of zebra finches as revealed by functional MRI

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2613-2626

  Boumans, Tiny ^a   Theunissen, Frédéric E ^b   Poirier, Colline ^a   Van Der Linden, Annemie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anaesthesia; Auditory cortex; Birdsong; Taeniopygia guttata; Vocalization

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; ISOFLURANE; MEDETOMIDINE; URETHAN;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FOREBRAIN; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SONGBIRD; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANESTHETICS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FINCHES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PITCH PERCEPTION; PROSENCEPHALON; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TELENCEPHALON; TIME PERCEPTION; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 35748948362     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05865.x     Document Type: Article

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